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Bancolombia launches a new app to facilitate access to its services

Bancolombia began 2025 with the renewal of its digital ecosystem. The company seeks to welcome the new year with a change to its financial application to improve its customers’ experience. (Read more:

January 7, 2025

Colombia

Peru recognizes Edmundo González as elected president of Venezuela

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Elmer Schialerannounced this Tuesday that Peru recognizes Edmundo González Urrutia as elected president of Venezuela. A former employee of Torres Saravia, involved in the aforementioned case, reported

January 7, 2025

Peru

Uruguayan government opened a commercial office in Jerusalem: they accuse it of being “complicit in the genocide”

Palestine has been almost completely destroyed by the action of the Israeli army. Photo courtesy of UNRWA/UN The recent opening of an office innovation and entrepreneurship in Jerusalem by the Uruguayan government

January 7, 2025

Uruguay

Cocaine base paste seized in Guárico prison

A portion of cocaine base paste was seized at the 26 de Julio Detention Center for Defendants located in San Juan de los Morros (Guárico), according to a report. The substance was

January 7, 2025

Venezuela

Federal Police fights social security crimes in the state of Rio

Federal Police agents are this Tuesday (7) in the city of São João de Meriti, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, to combat the practice of social security fraud. In Operation

January 7, 2025

Brasil

More than 70 affected families and 20 impacted neighborhoods left by the intense rains in Santa Marta

The authorities are on alert for possible emergencies due to flooding. Affected sectors. Courtesy of the Mayor’s Office of Santa Marta. Santa Marta faces a climate crisis after six consecutive days of

January 7, 2025

Colombia

Director of Agriculture of Junín: “Rains are a double-edged sword for planting”

The Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI), Ángel Manero, recommended that farmers in the mountain area not plant white potatoes in January to avoid overproduction in May. He warned that the

January 7, 2025

Peru

Laguna Merin

Municipality carries out beach raking and cleaning The Municipality of Cerro Largo carries out a beach rake, removing bottles, waste or any waste from the sand. The intervention is carried out daily

January 7, 2025

Uruguay

Maduro on mercenaries: “We were waiting for them”

The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reported this Monday on national television that before the end of the year, 125 mercenaries of more than 15 nationalities were captured

January 7, 2025

Venezuela

Restored works from 8/1 begin to arrive at Palácio do Planalto

This Wednesday (8), when two years have passed since the anti-democratic acts of January 8, 2023, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will coordinate a ceremony in memory of the episode, at

January 7, 2025

Brasil

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